Person:Joseph Workman (3)

CENSUS:

In the 1870 Census, Joseph, 24, and Marticia, 19, were listed as living in Amanda Township, Allen County, Ohio with no children.

CENSUS:

In the 1880 Census, Joseph, 34, and Marticia, 29, were living in Amanda Township, Allen County, Ohio with Adda, 9; Samuel, 8; Bert, 6; Ellis, 5; Stewart, 4; and Violet, 1.

DEATH: WORKMAN, Joseph Death date: 7/3/1923, Allen County Volume #4208, Certificate #41709

MILITARY: Enrolled in military on 4 January 1864 as a private at the age of 18 at Lima, Ohio. Served as a private in Company H, 32nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Was honorabaly discharged at Anapolis, Maryland on 15 June 1865. "Declaration of Pension certificate #344233, 21 May 1912.

~MILITARY: 32nd Regiment Infantry Organized at Mansfield, Ohio, August 20 to September 7, 1861. Left State for Grafton, W. Va., September 15, thence moved to Cheat Mountain Summit. Attached to Kimball's Brigade, Cheat Mountain, District West Virginia, to November, 1861. Milroy's Brigade, Reynolds' Command, Cheat Mountain, District West Virginia, to March, 1862. Milroy's Brigade, Dept. of the Mountains, to June, 1862. Piatt's 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Corps, Pope's Army of Virginia, to July, 1862. Piatt's Brigade, White's Division, Winchester, Va., to September, 1862. Miles' Command, Harper's Ferry, W. Va., September, 1862. Captured September 15, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 17th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, January to December, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 17th Army Corps, to July, 1864. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 17th Army Corps, to April, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 17th Army Corps, to July, 1865. SERVICE.--Action at Greenbrier River, W. Va., October 3-4, 1861. Duty at Greenbrier until December. Action at Camp Allegheny December 13. Duty at Beverly December, 1861, to April, 1862. Expedition on the Seneca April 1-12. Action at Monterey April 12. At Staunton until May 7. Battle of McDowell May 8. Battle of Cross Keys June 8. Duty at Strasburg and Winchester until September. Evacuation of Winchester September 2. Defence of Harper's Ferry, W. Va., September 12-15. Maryland Heights September 12-13. Regiment surrendered September 15. Paroled September 16 and sent to Annapolis, Md., thence to Chicago, Ill., and to Cleveland, Ohio. Exchanged January 12, 1863. Moved to Memphis, Tenn., January 20-25, 1863, thence to Lake Providence, La., February 20, and to Milliken's Bend, La., April 17. Movement on Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf April 25-30. Battle of Port Gibson May 1. Raymond May 12. Jackson May 14. Champion's Hill May 16. Siege of Vicksburg, Miss., May 18-July 4. Assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and 22. Surrender of Vicksburg July 4, and garrison duty there until February, 1864. Expedition to Monroe, La., August 20-September 2, 1863. Expedition to Canton October 14-20. Bogue Chitto Creek October 17. Meridian Campaign February 3-March 2. Baker's Creek February 5. Moved to Clifton, Tenn., thence march to Ackworth, Ga., April 21-June 8. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign, June 8-September 8. Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Assault on Kenesaw June 27. Nickajack Creek July 2-5. Howell's Ferry July 5. Chattahoochie River July 6-17. Leggett's or Bald Hill July 20-21. Battle of Atlanta July 22. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1. Lovejoy Station September 2-6. Operations against Hood in North Georgia and North Alabama September 29-November 3. Shadow Church and Westbrook's near Fairburn October 2. March to the sea November 15-December 10. Louisville November 30. Siege of Savannah December 10-21. Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865. Salkehatchie Swamp, S. C., February 2-5. River's Bridge, Salkehatchie River, February 3. South Edisto River February 9. Orangeburg February 11-12. Columbia February 15-17. Fayetteville, N. C., March 11. Battle of Bentonville March 20-21. Occupation of Goldsboro March 24. Advance on Raleigh April 10-14. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 20. Grand Review May 24. Moved to Louisville, Ky., June 8. Mustered out July 20, 1865. Regiment lost during service 5 Officers and 99 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 143 Enlisted men by disease. Total 240.

MILITARY: Cols. Thomas H. Ford, Benjamin F. Potts, Jefferson J. Hibbetts; Lieut.-Cols., Ebenezer H. Swinney, Robert H. Bentley, Sheldon Guthrie; Majs. Sylvester M. Hewitt, Abraham M. Crumbecker, Isaac B. Post. This regiment was organized near Mansfield, from Aug 20 to Sept 20, 1861, to serve three years. Its first assignment was in western Virginia. In October it made a forward movement and led the advance of the army through the mountains and pines of that region by night against Greenbrier, and in December accompanied Gen. Milroy in his advance on Camp Alleghany. In his report Gen. Milroy complimented the regiment very highly on its gallentry and good conduct in its charge into the camp of the enemy. The loss of the regiment in this affair was 4 killed and 14 wounded, some severely. On the return from this expedition it was ordered to Beverly, where it remained the rest of that severe winter. At the battle of McDowell the following May the 32nd lost 6 killed and 53 wounded, some mortally, being the last regiment to leave the field. In Fremont's pursuit of Jackson up the Shenandoah Valley the regiment bore its part, participating in the battles of Cross Keys and Port Republic. It remained at Winchester doing garrison duty until Sept. 1, the day the place was evacuated by Gen. White, when the regiment removed with the brigad to Harper's Ferry and assisted in the defense of that place, but after making a hard fight and losing 150 of its number, the regiment, with the whole command, it was sent South, moved with the army to Lake Providence, La., and during the campaign against Vicksburg took a prominent part in the gallant achievements of the 3d division, 17 corps. At the battle of Champion's hill the regiment made a bayonet charge and captured the 1st Miss. Confederate battery--men, guns and horses--with a loss of 24 men. The total loss of the regiment during the campaign and siege of Vicksburg was 225, rank and file. It participated in the battles of Port Gibson, Raymond, Jackson, and Champion's hill, was in the extreme front of Logan's division when Vicksburg surrendered; was assigned to post duty under Gen. Logan; was also with Sherman in Feb., 1864, at Meridian, and lost 22 men at Clinton. At about this time more than three-fourths of the regiment re-enlisted as veterans and after a furlough home rejoined the army in the movement on Atlanta. It was identified with the movements of the 17th corps in Sherman's advance; participated in the assault on Kennesaw mountain, was engaged at Nickajack creek, and was also in the battles of July 20, 21, 22 and 28 before Atlanta, losing more than half its number in killed and wounded. After the fall of Atlanta it moved with the army in pursuit of Hood, then rejoined Sherman and accompanied him on his "March to the Sea." It was in the advance of the army, contributed its share toward driving the enemy into his works at Savannah, on Dec. 21 entered the city, and then went into camp near Fort Thunderbold. It moved with the army through the Carolinas, and a detachment of the regiment entered and captured Fayetteville, N.C., after a severe fight with Wade Hampton's cavalry. It was also engaged with the enemy at Bentonville and was present at the surrender of Johnston's army. It was mustered out on July 20, 1865. The 32nd entered the field, 950 strong, and during the war received more than 1,600 recruits, but only 565 remained at its muster-out.

Company H Allen County. Believed by some to be the color company of the regiment

-source: "The Union Army, volume 2"

1. ↑ Death Certificate.

   County Name: ALLEN
   Date of Death: 7/3/1923
   Volume Number: 4208
   Certificate Number: 41709

2. ↑ Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions. Military Pension Certificate
   344233, 21 May 1912.
3.   History of OVI 32nd Regiment. (http://www.ohiocivilwar.com/cw32.html).